SNAPSHOTS.

Long before bluegrass echoed through the hills of Kentucky and Tennessee, its earliest notes were already traveling across oceans. The fiddles, reels, jigs, and laments of Irish and Scottish immigrants didn’t stay confined to the old world — they came ashore with the people who carried them, settling deep into the Appalachian mountains where new lives were being built. Those melodies didn’t stay untouched. They mixed with African rhythms, gospel harmonies, work songs, and the